Episode 06 - The Now-Time of the Hand

This piece is a response to a recent essay by

Rhyd Wildermuth

and an opportunity to expand on a letter to my friend

Dougald Hine

. I’ll raise the case for haptic richness over the tyranny of frictionless surfaces, show how our ancestors left us plenty of medicine in unlikely places, and suggest that there is no time, or at least no linear time, in the palm of your hand. For help from Blake, my mother’s sewing kit and a German biker, plus several contrasting photos featuring my hands, press play.

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First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, December 12th 2022.